Legging.



C. T. DAHLIN.

LEGGING.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10, 1911.

1,222,737 Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

Zz'izzefis Ina/6923041" CARL T. IDAHLIN, OF STCCKI-IOLM, WISCONSIN.

LEGGING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1'7, 191?.

Original application filed June 3, 1916, Serial No. 101,494. Divided and this application filed January 10,

To all whom it may concern:

l 3e 1t known that I, CARL T. DAHIJIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stockholm, in the county of Pepin and State of lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Leggings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in leggings, especially adapted for threshcrmen when stacking or threshing barley to prevent barley beards from getting next to the skin of the wearer, and is in the nature of a division of my copending application of the same title, filed June 3, 1916, under S. N. 101,494.

To the above end, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the legs;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective View of the legging applied to the wearer;

Fig. 3 is a View corresponding to Fig. 2, with the exception that the parts are viewed from a different position; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the legging applied to the wearer and with the foot extension thereof folded onto the body of the legging and held in position by extending the buckle-equipped straps around the leg, said parts being shown in section.

The body 5 of the legging is of tubular form, except at its bottom where it is expanded to extend forward over the shoe or boot 6 of the wearer. A pair of straps 7 are sewed or otherwise secured to one side of the legging, at the bottom thereof, and arranged to be extended under the shoe 6, the one at the instep and the other at the ball of the foot. The free ends of the straps 7 are adjustably secured to the opposite sides of the legging 5 by buckles 8 sewed or otherwise secured thereto. A tie strap 9 connects the straps 7 at a point along the sole of the shoe 6. (See Fig. 2).

The top of the legging is secured to one Serial No. 141,567.

of the garments of'the wearer, as shown, a pair of overalls 10, by a pair of safety pins 11, secured one to each side of the legging by an elastic strap l2.' As described and claimed in my copending application, above identified, the top of the legging 5 is circumferentially adjusted around the leg 13 of the wearer by folding the top portion of the legging upon itself and securing the same together by a buckle i l to form a plait 15. A circumferentially extended reinforcing strap 16 is sewed onto the legging where the plait .5 is formed. The buckle 1 1 is secured to the legging by a strap 17 to prevent the same from being lost.

The body of the legging is made from a soft flexible material, such as chambray, or any light material having sufficient body to keep out the barley beards. Preferably, the straps 7, 9, and 17 are made of a coarse relatively heavy material, such as canvass. Obviously, by means of the straps 7 and buckles 8, the lower marginal edge portion of the legging may be tightly drawn into close engagement with the shoe 6, at all points, so that there are no creases or wrinkles through which the barley beards or other articles may work. The arrangement of the strap 9 along the longitudinal center of the sole of the shoe 6 securely connects the straps 7 so that there is no forward or backward movement thereof and, at the same time, is not uncomfortable for the wearer to step upon.

To prevent wear upon the straps 7 and 9, when the wearer is walking to and from his work, the foot extension of the legging may be folded upward onto the body thereof and secured in position by extending the straps 7 around the leg of the wearer, as shown in Fig. 41-. When the foot extension of the legging is turned up, as shown in Fig. 4, the entire legging is concealed under the leg of the overalls 10 and, as the legging is made of very light material, the same is not uncomfortable to wear, even in very hot weather.

The above described invention, while extremely simple and of small cost to manufacture, has, in actual usage, proven highly eflicient for the purpose had in view.

What I claim is 1. A legging having a flexible tubular .body with a bottom extension extending over the top of the foot of the wearer, buckleequipped straps secured to the bottom of the legging and extending, the one under the 1nstep and the other under the ball of the foot, and a tie strap connecting said two buckle-equipped straps.

2. A legging having a flexible tubular body With a bottom extension extending over the top of the foot of the wearer, buckleequipped straps secured to the bottom of the legging and extending, the one under the instep and the other under the ball of the foot,

and a tie strap connecting said two buekie- 10 equipped straps, and being located beneath the sole of the foot.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

CARL T. DAHLIN. Witnesses:

G. M. DEVELLE, RoBT. ROMICK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

